Sergeant Dakota Livers
Appearances
48 Hours
The "Batman" Intruder
So as we were walking up, Rodney was seated in his car right here with another deputy.
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The "Batman" Intruder
Yeah, he did. He asked, hey, man, are you the guy that we've been waiting on? And I said, yes, sir, I am. And then he replied, do your job.
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The "Batman" Intruder
I was taken aback. I really was. This guy just had found his wife bound and beaten on the back porch. And you would think that my arrival to help find a resolution to this would be welcoming.
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The "Batman" Intruder
Her eye was swollen shut in black and blue, where she still had the zip tie around her one wrist. And I was shocked, and I'd seen a lot in my career. And I was surprised that somebody would be so harsh.
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The "Batman" Intruder
She was feared that someone was still back here watching her and that they were going to kill her if she moved. And so she laid here and waited.
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The "Batman" Intruder
Morgan believed it to be somewhere around 15 to 20 minutes max. That was her perception of time.
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The "Batman" Intruder
I agree. Where their adrenaline's going, you know, people perceive things differently.
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The "Batman" Intruder
He claimed it was just habits, what I would do. Were you scratching your heads? Yeah, we questioned him on it.
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The "Batman" Intruder
It was an Apple iPhone, and it had a hidden folder. And in the hidden folder were images of Morgan partially dressed.
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The "Batman" Intruder
You didn't have that permission. Y'all don't have that relationship. She's baffled that you have that. That's stalkerish.
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The "Batman" Intruder
We knew we had to get him in custody while we started doing search warrants and started investigating to prevent him from destroying evidence.
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The "Batman" Intruder
I believe he thought he was going to come in and rescue her and be the savior and win her back.
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The "Batman" Intruder
That's correct. Right here is the window that we found the screen was actually removed.
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The "Batman" Intruder
That basement window had an alarm sensor that was removed from the window and put together on the windowsill. So if the window was to open, it would appear to the alarm system that the sensor is still making contact.
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The "Batman" Intruder
I think it was to get her to come back to the house that evening because she told Rodney she was going to be at her parents' house for New Year's. Morgan returned to the house, retrieved it, and kind of made some sort of a gesture, and she walked back into the house and put it on the kitchen countertop.
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The "Batman" Intruder
He was working in the dark. He was handcuffing somebody. You never know how much fight that person's going to put up.
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The "Batman" Intruder
one of the zip ties actually was pretty unique because it had two other zip ties that had been ratcheted onto it and then cut and so basically what we were looking at was a zip tie that had two extra heads
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The "Batman" Intruder
She was able to match this tail to one of the heads on the zip tie from Morgan's wrist.
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The "Batman" Intruder
That we were going to be adding charges to his existing booking. And we had our guy. I would have never imagined having a piece of evidence like this.
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The "Batman" Intruder
I brought up my Lowe's app on my phone and scanned the UPC code, and the UPC code came back that they were in fact sold at Lowe's.
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The "Batman" Intruder
There's actually one inside the breezeway there, which leads to Rodney's apartment specifically.
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The "Batman" Intruder
What we do see is after the time of the incident that Morgan was attacked, Rodney come in disheveled in a hurry.
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The "Batman" Intruder
He agreed to serve 25 years on a 70-year sentence. So when he gets out in 25 years, he'll serve another 45 years of probation.
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The "Batman" Intruder
He came up and rescued her on the back porch. Saved her. Saved her. Her hero. Absolutely.
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The "Batman" Intruder
He was getting ready for bed. He was brushing his teeth when he heard knocking on his window. That knocking was accompanied by a voice in which he could only decipher the word Morgan was being said.
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The "Batman" Intruder
He obviously went to the worst. He thought that something was going to happen to Morgan or something might be happening to Morgan.